By Anna Botting, in Tripoli | Sky News
Play VideoVideo: Gaddafi Prisoner Tells Sky Of Desert Torture
Play VideoOne of the men reportedly imprisoned by Colonel Gaddafi's troops inside a shipping container has told Sky News how those around him were forced to drink their own urine.
We find Faraj Omar Eljanin sitting under a tree talking to friends in the coastal town of Al Khums, on the road between Tripoli and Misratah.
He has only been back 10 days and has much to discuss.
Faraj is, he says, another victim of Colonel Gaddafi's brutal crackdown on the revolution that began more than six months ago.
He takes us to a disused factory, commandeered by Gaddafi forces for interrogation.
Suspected rebels like Faraj were, they claim, brought here, blindfolded, their hands tied behind their backs and subjected to electric shock treatment to their genitals, to make them confess to their revolutionary crimes.
Faraj had been caught carrying an AK47 but said he would confess to anything after the guards threatened to abuse his mother and sister.
The torture did not end there though. At the start of June, he tells us, he was one of 29 people thrown into two shipping containers, the walls peppered with bullets.
They were given a small amount of bread, and a few litres of water to share and used one corner as a toilet to limit the smell.
But after six days the doors were closed and locked and the detainees baked in the heat, dehydrating and suffocating, they begged for help.
"There was no water, no food. People started drinking their urine and squeezed their shirts and started drinking their sweat," he said.
"I saw many people dying in front of me. When the guards opened the container, they couldn't come inside because there was a very bad smell.
"So I had to carry the dead bodies outside - many bodies."
Amnesty International's Diana El Tahawy has investigated the crime and says 19 of the 29 suffocated to death.
"People were tortured at that detention facility. People were electrocuted, beaten with belts and wooden sticks," she said.
"It's an awful story. These individuals, these victims, deserve to see the perpetrators be brought to justice."
But justice will not come for Faraj and the others. The Gaddafi army soldiers have abandoned their uniforms and fled.
The bodies of the 19 missing people have not been recovered, though remains have been found at a nearby date syrup factory, they have no means of knowing if these are new or old.
When the container doors opened Faraj was shipped into Tripoli and detained for three months in the intelligence HQ.
He was freed a day after Green Square - now known as Martyrs Square - fell. His family had thought he was dead.
As we drive him back to the mosque for Friday prayers, he thanks god for saving him from Col Gaddafi's guards, who he described as inhuman.
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